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    ​The Great Sioux War or The Black Hills War (1876- 1877) was a series of battles trying to force the Sioux and Cheyenne people back into the Great Sioux Reservation. In 1868, the Treaty of Laramie was signed by Sioux leaders to give up their lands and move west onto the reservations. In 1874 LTC George Custer was tasked to reconnoiter the Black Hills (part of the Sioux reservation). His primary task was to survey the land and look for natural resources during a time of great economic depression.

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    Biography Of Sam Houston

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    Tennessee. He learn the ways of life, and even their language. Houston was going to follow his father's footsteps, so he joined the military. During the War of 1812. He served under Andrew Jackson, and Houston earned praise and Andrew Jackson´s approval. In the future, Sam Houston's relationship with Jackson became very crucial. Houston returned to Tennessee and had a successful political career. He studied law and became the district attorney i in Nashville. Houston's first national politics was

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    It’s safe to say that our founding founder set the stage for following presidents to build off of. But which one really took those extra steps going above and beyond? His name is Andrew Jackson. I think Jackson should get another monument because he gave America a strong leader who I personally think showed that the executive branch was just as powerful as the others and isn't a position that should be messed with. Andrew helped extended the rights to voting,became the father of the democratic party

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    I, David Farragut, was born as James Glasgow Farragut on July 5, 1801 to my mother Elizabeth Shine and my father, Jorge Antonio Farragut-Mesquida, in Campbell’s Station, Tennessee. I am not fully Hispanic, however, my father Jorge was an immigrant that worked as a merchant seaman and was born on the Spanish island of Minorca. We are both descendants of the great conquistador Don Pedro Farragut who served the King of Aragon during the 13th century. I lived in Tennessee until 1807, because my dad was

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    James a Garfield biography book report The biography of James A. Garfield is my book report. The author is William M. Thayer. And the date he published it was 1880. This book is a biography. It has 262 fact filled pages. What is the book about, the book James A. Garfield was about how he has grown up all the way to president and to getting assonated? James Garfield was born in Orange Township, Ohio, on November 19, 1831. Garfield rose from humble beginnings to serve as a college president. And

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    Andrew Jackson was a very decisive man. His background doesn’t call a lot of attention but here it is. Yet, he became one of the Americas most popular and controversial presidents. During Jefferson’s presidency, he cut off most of the u.s militia. When tensions got harsher with the Britain’s, there’s when Andrew Jackson started getting recognized. Andrew Jackson becomes one the generals instructed to protect his city. Even though the Britain’s invaded Washington, Jackson could obtain a victory on

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    The Beanes Research Paper

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    The Beanes family is traced back from Christopher Banes who was an immigrant from Scotland and started his life as a merchant and planter. Dr. William Beanes is a fourth generation Scottish man born on the 24th of January 1749 to the parents of William Beanes and Mary Bradley at Brook Ridge, a thousand acre farm near Croom, Maryland on the Patuxent River. His father was the first in his family to move to Prince Georges County. Brooke Ridge was given to his great grandmother, Anne Brooke since

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    Custer's Last Stand

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    With the settlement of the American West, I discern that it was not nice to force Native Americans off their land onto reservations. There was a treaty given to the Sioux for the rights to the Black Hills until gold was discovered in the area. The white miners flocked to the territory to get the gold. I don’t think it was right that with the treaty the U.S. government still ordered the Native Americans back to their reservations. With the conflict that occurred between the U.S. Government and the

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    One of the first groups of people to dwell in North America were the Ancestral Puebloans also known as the Anasazi. They were a tribe that lived in the Four Corners region which we know today as Mesa Verde. They lived there for hundreds of years and did very well but eventually something drove them out to leave their homes. There are many possible and unknown reasons why the Anasazi disappeared from their cliff dwellings and what remains of them to this day in Pueblo Colorado. Drought and crop failures

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    After acquiring the Louisiana Territory in 1803, the United States President Thomas Jefferson planned for expeditions in the new land. The land bought was huge and unknown for the Americans. Soon many Americans were going to live on this land so they had to know well the territory. For the expedition, Thomas Jefferson asked two former soldiers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the west of North America. The president asked them to take notes of the soil, plants, animals and American

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